# Your oldest article of clothing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128 "2006-11-28T21:24:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/21 "2006-11-29T00:10:23Z")
I would love to see a picture of **Sonia’s** Homecoming dress! My oldest piece of clothing that I still wear is a black mini skirt with a white pattern – from any distance whatsoever it looks abstract, but if you get up close, it’s white writing that says “la plage et le soleil” (the beach and the sun, I think) over and over. I got it in 1986, and I still wear it, although these days, I mostly wear it over a bathing suit if I am in fact at the beach. Also dating from the 80s, I have my concert t-shirt from the Cure’s Head on the Door tour, it is now tissue-paper thin and could not possibly survive one more trip through the laundry so it is more like a collector’s item. I seem to have a lot of clothing items that are keepsakes, including two sweaters that belonged to people who died and I really like having them even though I wouldn’t wear them. (One is too ratty and the other is too fugly - okay, sometimes I wear the fugly one around the house if I am cold.) This never struck me as that odd until I just now wrote it out to post on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/22 "2006-11-29T00:20:33Z")
I have a sweet brown suede jacket circa 1970 that once belonged to my uncle and a pillowy coat from the 1980s, both of which I wear regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/23 "2006-11-29T00:28:04Z")
**Mine** : A cotton pullover shirt I got at Al Berman’s on City Line Avenue around 1967, and still wear occasionally. **Someone else’s** : A yellow silk skirt, embroidered with flowers, c1870. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/24 "2006-11-29T02:00:07Z")
I have a 1934 Chicago Century of Progress tie bar, and some ties that are about that age. Next oldest thing I have is a tan Harris Tweed 3pc suit probably made in the late '30s. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/25 "2006-11-29T02:04:54Z")
A U.S. Navy G-8 jacket that was a gift from an F-4 pilot at NAS (now MCAS) Miramar that I got around 1973. It wears squadron patches (VF-1, VF-2, VA-196) and the ship’s patch (CVAN-65) that a family friend, Ordnance Officer on USS _Enterprise_ (now CVN-65), gave to me a couple of years later. ---
**Author:** ![Canadiangirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/26 "2006-11-29T02:06:38Z")
An old blue, cowl necked sweater that my old boyfriend’s mother made me…he’s dead now and every time I wear that sweater I think of good times. …even though there were bad times…I remember him when I wear it. Because he, and his wife, have a duplicate. 'Cause I know she wears his. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/27 "2006-11-29T02:35:01Z")
I have a T-shirt from The Who’s 1989 reunion tour, the first rock concert I ever went to. The back of the shirt lists all their albums with all the songs on them. I don’t wear it since I don’t think it will survive going through the wash much more. I am, however, will to wear the baseball cap I bought at the same concert. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/28 "2006-11-29T02:37:54Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] I have a T-shirt from The Who’s 1989 reunion tour, the first rock concert I ever went to. The back of the shirt lists all their albums with all the songs on them. I don’t wear it since I don’t think it will survive going through the wash much more. I am, however, will to wear the baseball cap I bought at the same concert. [/QUOTE] I actually have a 1989 Who shirt that I think could be from the same tour. It was hung up in my old apartment, but now it’s in storage because this place is a little smaller. Lucky you got to go see them. I was only 3 at the time. Brendon ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/29 "2006-11-29T03:13:02Z")
Baby blue “Nehru” jacket. It was one of many outfits I wore as the drummer of many 60’s bands. Incidentally, I am looking for a Navy peacoat to replace one I lost sometime during the last century. I **know** I can buy one all over the place, but the one like the one I lost is kinda “special” in that the “cut” of it was tapered in at the underarms instead of just hanging straight, if y’all know what I mean? Think Robert Redford in the film _Three Days of The Condor_, and that will give you an idea of what it looks like. The material used was called “Melton”, I believe. Very sturdy stuff. Anyway, got one you wanna sell me? Thanks Quas’ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/30 "2006-11-29T03:18:53Z")
Mine is a blue and red towel I’ve had for over 30 years now. And, yes, I do know where my towel is. ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/31 "2006-11-29T03:31:56Z")
Made in the USA cotton bandanas. A red and blue (pretty warn). Do they make them anymore in the US? The Chinese ones don’t seem to ‘soften up’ as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/32 "2006-11-29T03:39:29Z")
I have a t-shirt from one of the radio stations I worked at that dates back to 1975. Not sure if it counts as an article of clothing, but I have a baseball glove that I used in the mid-1960s. Not only do I still use it, I had it relaced. The oldest thing I actually wear is a pair of boots that are coming up on 30 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/33 "2006-11-29T03:52:10Z")
I still have an ultra-wide silk necktie, green with a peacock on it. Very florid. It was a Christmas gift to me about forty years ago. Last time I wore it was a couple of years ago. When I tell a younger person, “I have neckties older than you,” it’s not a joke…although that tie might be. ---
**Author:** ![blackhobyah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blackhobyah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blackhobyah)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/34 "2006-11-29T03:55:30Z")
I’m wearing it today. A beaded, black crepe 1940s day dress that my Great Aunt gave me more than twenty years ago. I can truthfully say that this dress has been in my family for generations. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/35 "2006-11-29T03:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=kurilla] My camel-colored leather jacket, which I got as a high school graduation present in 1985 (21 years old). [/QUOTE] I have a black leather jacket that is just about exactly as old. I feel like such a giant cheeseball when I wear it, but I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/36 "2006-11-29T04:38:58Z")
Probably my old school tie. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/37 "2006-11-29T07:29:35Z")
Originally mine: a white linen skirt I got on sale at Target in 1973. Originally someone else’s: My mother’s fur coat, which she got in the mid-'30s. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/38 "2006-11-29T10:11:01Z")
My wedding dress. Not that it gets worn much. (1978) ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/39 "2006-11-29T12:52:04Z")
Oldest wearable? My Star Trek Federation logo t-shirt from the early 90s. Earliest in existence? My MG logo patched trousers from when I was a toddler 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128/40 "2006-11-29T13:16:41Z")
I’m a pack rat–so I still ave a lot of clothing from high school (1964-69). LIke **Sonia** , I have a prom dress. Mine is a deep green velvet. I’ve modified it over the years and wear it once in a while. I also have (gasp!) my gym suit (a horrible one-piece blue shirt/shorts combination with a zipper up the front); I actually wear it for painting. I have a brown mini skirt that I’d never dare wear any more–it fits but just doesn’t look like it did when I was 16. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-oldest-article-of-clothing/382128.md?page=3)